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The concept of the Iwasawa decomposition [1] of ABCD ray-matrices is used for a systematic calculation of field distributions appearing in spherical optical systems. Examples of optimization for applications are calculated.
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Glur, H., Kireev, A.N., Wyss, E. et al. Systematic engineering of paraxial coherent fields with spherical optical systems. Appl. Phys. B 81, 59–63 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-005-1843-0
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